Dont use pen magnets, do the dowel route.

I learned the hard way and spent $200 and a extra day pulling the heads

 

Did the magnets come off, and drop the lifter?

 

nah the lifters basically stayed in the trays, just 2 magnet heads stayed on as well.

 

lucky for you............ when i did it, 2 of the stupid metal clips on the pen magnets broke off, dropping two lifters and the broken peices into my engine, resulting in lifting up the motor and dropping the oil pan, trying to fish out the lifters and peices. this took a huge amount of time and avoidable bullshit......... USE THE DOWELS!!!!

 

Dodadowlsdude..

 

This is worth repeating. Pen magnets suck, dowels are simple and the lifters should not be able to fall

 

what did you spend $200 on?

 

Feel your pain, did my cam and dropped a lifter b/c of the pen magnets. Added lots of extra time to the project.
Did the dowels on a friends car when I did his cam and went smooth as butter.

 

Is there a cam how to swap? thread on here ?

 

here ya go

just skip the part on the springs

http://www.ls1howto.com/index.php?article=23

 

ARP head bolts, head/header gaskets.

 

ahh I see.

Well atleast you got some nice bolts on there now!

and the next time you drop a lifter you can re-use those bolts

 

I used pen magnets ANd a dowel rod. Well it was a quarter inch threaded rod from lowes same concept though.